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How Did We Do? Reviewing SwimSwam’s Final 2025 Women’s NCAA Power Rankings

The Stanford women were the runner-ups at NCAAs, their highest finish since 2019, after we predicted them to finish 3rd in the final power rankings.

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2025 Women’s Division I NCAA Championships: Day 4 Finals Live Recap

The 200 backstroke will be a rematch of the 100 back last night, where Claire Curzan and Bella Sims had a photo finish.

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2025 Women’s NCAA Diving Preview (Including Score Projection)

Using Zone qualifying scores throughout the nation, an unofficial diving ‘psych sheet’ of sorts can be used to predict how teams will benefit from diving.

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2024-25 Women’s NCAA Power Rankings: Final Edition

The Walsh sisters are poised to lead the Virginia women to a fifth straight national title, but how do the rest of our final power rankings shake out?

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2025 NCAA Zone Diving Recap: Wednesday

This week, Divers around the country will be competing at the various zone meets to secure a spot at the NCAA Championships.

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2025 NCAA Zone Diving Recap: Monday

This week, Divers around the country will be competing at the various zone meets to secure a spot at the NCAA Championships.

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2025 SEC Championships: Day 3 Finals Live recap

Bella Sims is seeded 3rd in the 200 IM, but the reigning SEC champion is looking to pick up Florida’s first event win of the meet.

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2025 SEC Championships: Women’s Diving Preview

While diving is notoriously difficult to predict, here are a few standouts to look out for and a good idea of what to expect at this week’s SEC Championships.

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A&M Earns Hard Fought Victory Over LSU

Texas A&M and LSU swam a close dual meet over the weekend, ending with both Aggie teams coming out victorious over the Tigers.

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Pair of Freshmen Beat NCAA Finalists at Texas Diving Invite

The Texas diving invitational was highlighted by two freshmen divers beating NCAA scorers, including A&M diver Leonardo Garcia, in the platform event.

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Chloe Stepanek Rips 1:44.90 200 Free, Lottie Cullen Sets Houston Record As TAMU Tops Cougars

Texas A&M’s Chloe Stepanek produced her third sub-1:45 200 free of the young 2024-25 season as the Aggies doubled up the Cougars.

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2025 College Swimming Previews: Can #6 Louisville Women Rejig Without Regenauer?

The Cardinals are losing two of their top three NCAA scorers, Christiana Regenauer and Else Praasterink, meaning the first-years will be relied on heavily.

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Wesley Mattice Named Head Diving Coach At Florida State

Mattice arrives in Tallahassee following a head coaching stint at NC State, where he led divers to NCAAs in each of his three seasons at the helm.

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Women’s Recruiting Class Rankings Revisited: Top 16 Schools For 2020-2024

The Virginia women had the highest scoring recruiting class from 2020, but Texas wasn’t far off three with three women hitting 100 points.

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Revisiting NCAA Recruit Rankings: Women’s High School Class of 2020

With 221 points over four seasons, Alex Walsh is the clear-cut top scorer from the girls’ high school class of 2020 through their senior years.

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